In a case of "If you have haters then you must be doing something right" (similar to the harassment of Jeffrey Beall over his list of predatory publishers), Science published a flawed hit piece on Open Access journals.

As more libraries move to web-scale discovery systems, the issue of interoperable metadata will become important. A vendor dispute highlights how libraries can be caught between competing economic interests.

If information is power, then privacy—a fundamental tenet of librarianship, according to many of us—is freedom. Several disturbing surveillance practices were revealed this year, making it important that librarians continue their efforts to safeguard people's privacy.